Stacking the -28% cast costs on my armor for free magic casting of any 2 schools of magic at one time.

My reasoning is simple, Magic was done a little poorly compared to the rest of the combat skills.

Warlocks/Wizards/Mages etc...have all been widely known to be capable of sick, massive damage at the cost of being very easy to kill. In Skyrim, you just do moderate damage and are still damned easy to kill, and on top of that they throw in the fact that your offense is limited by your mana pool.

For example.

My master mage is only capable of 90 points of damage per projectile. It can be boosted a little if I dual cast, but its not enough of a boost to justify the bigger mana drain.

So here we are. 90 points per shot, which at high levels is like little powder puffs to these enemies that bullrush and cut you down. The master spells do a little more damage, but require you to remain perfectly still, and can be interrupted if struck during the cast time.

Now, my "Pretty Good" sword skills (88) combined with Blacksmithing and some perks have me doing 153 damage with a sharpened GLASS sword. Not enchanted or anything, just a sharpened Glass sword, and its not even the best caliber sword you can get. I have unlimited swings of this, as normal strikes cost no stamina.

In short, as a warrior I have limitless attacks that do more damage in their base form than my best master destruction spell. Oh, not to mention that should I cast said spell it would drain the entire mana pool for only a small ding in the enemy's lifebar.

The problem with magic lies in the fact that there is no way to boost your magical damage past taking the perks for +50% to get it to where it is now.

Melee fighters can boost their damage 100% through perks, and then around 300% through blacksmithing. Thats on an UNENCHANTED weapon, mind you. Throw extra damage on there from fire/frost/shock.....forget about it. Why even play as a wizard?

Bows are similarly used. +100% through perks, add in blacksmithing and enchanting, and take into account the long range sneak attacks for X2 or X3 damage, and right there you have all the reason in the world do be a bowman instead of a mage.

Limitless casting is pretty much required at higher levels if youre playing anything above adept. Otherwise, have fun hitting your enemies with cherry blossoms as they rush in and gut you while youre running for your life waiting on your mana to come back.

If ever there was a good reason to exploit a glitch I guess this is it... It's a shame really since I was seriously considering playing a pure mage character next... I might just have to settle for a stealth based character instead, with part-time spell casting... Sort of forsworn-esque character build... Btw are the forsworn Bretons or any race?

If ever there was a good reason to exploit a glitch I guess this is it... It's a shame really since I was seriously considering playing a pure mage character next... I might just have to settle for a stealth based character instead, with part-time spell casting... Sort of forsworn-esque character build... Btw are the forsworn Bretons or any race?

I'm doing stealth with spell-casting and archery now, so no glitching necessary (at lvl 22 and I think the only skills I have over 50 are stealth at 65 and smithing/enchanting-those just barely). But I plan doing an Altmer full Mage next, so I plan to get my enchanting up QUICK on that. I think it'll be a good challenge.

I stumbled upon one after that irritating glitch in the Windhelm- After purchasing the house the armor room has some glitches, unable to use the weapon racks the armor placed on the mannequins seems to disappear after placing it on there. I did figure out how to make it visible and in turn found a Duplicate glitch

If you equip the mannequins with all the armor desired, then add a Necklace then remove the necklace the armor will appear- Sometimes it stays visible others it will disappear after returning to the house

While fiddling around trying to get it work properly i was adding and removing armor, this case it was Dragon Plate as i have already moved up to Daedric and wanted to display my fallen foes bones

I noticed that if you open the mannequin and "Give" the armor then take it away leave the house and return to the mannequin it will still have the unequipped armor in the mannequin as well as in your inventory, but for some reason it will return it to its base attributes.

I think i would still rather have a working Armory cause the weapon rack issue really annoys me, but having, now, a virtual endless money supply will make up for it

Only thing I've done that could count is get my Smithing to 100 using almost entirely iron daggers. I didn't do it in one sitting, but it would be a case of buy out a blacksmiths supply of iron/leather to make the daggers from time to time. I'd also be enchanting most of those daggers to work on my Enchanting skill too, and then selling them off for more gold, too.

Unlike in Morrowind and Oblivion,I actually haven't exploited any glitches or anything. In morrowind I abused the health cheat (I made the mistake of using Unarmored as a class skill),and in Oblivion I abused the item duplication glitch (before it was patched of course).

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I think i would still rather have a working Armory cause the weapon rack issue really annoys me, but having, now, a virtual endless money supply will make up for it

The Mannequins, Weapon Racks, Weapon Plaques, and Shield Plaques all work in Proudspire Manor, in Solitude. Just costs a ton to get it. With your newfound income, it shouldnt be a problem.

Even faster if you have the Investor perk and invested with Lucan at Riverwood. For some reason, he turns that 500 gold investment into a pool of around 10,000 gold every 2 days.

The only wierd thing on the weapon rack in the basement in the Solitude house seem to be that only the middle 3 slots can be activated to hold weapons. But, it works out okay because of the 2 wall plaques for weapons, and 2 wall plaques for shields.

Only thing I've done that could count is get my Smithing to 100 using almost entirely iron daggers. I didn't do it in one sitting, but it would be a case of buy out a blacksmiths supply of iron/leather to make the daggers from time to time. I'd also be enchanting most of those daggers to work on my Enchanting skill too, and then selling them off for more gold, too.

See i dont really think that is really a "Cheat" or "Glitch" Your still doing the leg work to create the Daggers from Raw material then selling the fruits of your labor, it took me like 30 or so to get my Smithing up to 100 doing it straight thru, made a dumb amount of cash and got rid of some petty gems by enchanting the newly built daggers

SO iis productive- U gain in Enchanting, smithing, and speech skills.I see it as everyday work in Skyrim, like a 9-5 Hustling job

How is stacking -28% cheating? 4 Items that can be enchanted with -25%+ X cost. You can get up to 29% with Fortify Enchanting potions. Doesn't seem like a glitch/cheat to me. There's a reason why Bethesda didn't cap the mage costs to a certain percentage (what they DID do to banter, pickpocket and armour; you can never get pay less than 1.05x the value of items in shops, pickpocket with over 90% likelihood or block over 80% of the damage with armour).

Exploits I used:

- Falmer Helm over Circlet when making potions- Riften Meadery Speech skill exploit- Getting both Ring of Hircine and Savior's hide from Hircine's quest (because I missed a Daedric item and didn't want to make another character for the only missable trophy)

I used the glitch of bumping the guy who sells you a house in whiterun over to the cabinet and putting my money in their before he took it out. I dont give a *bleep*, I need the house and the money. The economy is hard these days.I spent the day power leveling my smithing with iron daggers and leather helments just so I can make dragon armor. I used the speech glitch with the guy in riften to get to level 34 or so but stopped cuz I didnt wanna cheat ad speech isnt that important to me. Otherwise Ive pretty much played by the books.